Duster vs Dusker - What's the difference?
duster | dusker |
An object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.
Someone who dusts.
A light, loose-fitting long coat.
(label) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(label) A blowing-machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(label) A dry drill hole, one that does not produce oil or gas.
A vehicle-mounted, multi-barrelled, anti-aircraft gun.
(dusk)
A period of time occurring at the end of the day during which the sun sets.
A darkish colour.
* Dryden
to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk
* ,
To make dusk.
* Holland
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
* Milton
As a noun duster
is an object, now especially a cloth, used for dusting surfaces etc.As an adjective dusker is
comparative of dusk.duster
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
* * (commonslite)Anagrams
* * ----dusker
English
Adjective
(head)dusk
English
Noun
(en noun)- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
Synonyms
* sunset * sundown * evenfall * smokefall * vespersAntonyms
* dawnHyponyms
* gloaming * twilightSee also
*See also
* crepuscularVerb
(en verb)More Poems, XXXIII, lines 25-27
- I see the air benighted
- And all the dusking dales,
- And lamps in England lighted,
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Adjective
(er)- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.